Sea and Sky Advanced - Autumn | Forest Arts Centre

Building on the skills learned in the Improvers' workshop you will experiment with how to graduate, glaze, layer and light a Sea and Sky composition using non-traditional colours, spending a little more time on movement in a painting.

Dave White will be leading this workshop and the session will cover :

1 hour Acrylic Techniques – Background and Skies

1 hours composition and background seas

0.5 Lunch

2.5 Waves and wash

1 hour spray and surf

Students will need to bring:

Either a 24 x 18” stretched canvas or similar size canvas board Or a similar size canvas board	75ml tubes of acrylic paint; Cadmium Red Deep or Crimson, Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine and Pthalo or Prussian Blue, Titanium White (plus Hookers Green, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber and Yellow Ochre)
	Paper kitchen towel
2 containers for water (preferably not glass)	2 x Plastic palette or a saucer (yogurt pot?) for mixing paint
a 1 inch wide synthetic (watercolour) flat brush	Some reference for a painting you might like to try and most importantly….
Any other paintbrushes you might care to bring	an open and willing heart with a smile!

Session: Friday 14 November 2025 10am-4pm

Tickets: £48/ £43.20 Concessions

Tutor: Dave White

Dave White is a local artist and is the author of the book ‘Sea and Sky in Acrylics‘, which analyses the characteristics of seascapes, how they can inspire and what techniques you can use to describe them in acrylic paint. Dave is also a well-known pet portraitist and landscape painter and is exhibiting in January at Forest Arts Centre from the 11th October - 19th November 2025.

https://www.facebook.com/theartistdavewhite

https://theartistdavewhite.wordpress.com/

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